The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-11

: God II l could have done otberwisa.
While the truthiulnets OF this assertion
does not become me, neither have I th
disposition to question, I cannot but repl,
that the course OF the action throughou
was not such as TO inspire me with tn
comforting confidence that such ssntimen
at the timo largely dominated and deter
mined your heart. Yet, l repeat that th'
external OF actions are not always tho In
!, fallible opponents OF the motives OF thu
actors. E1EN
All, right reverend aud dear air, It Il
not when our sufIerings are over that W,
need and welcome assurances OF sympathJ
: and willingness TO help. 1t Is when We
are In them and under them. Not thu,
does the Great Father Of all deal with hit
9 suffering children. "He 10 a very preren,
help In time Of trouble" In tho timo o.
my trouble, however, you, whom I had
been taught to call "My Rev, Father In
God" stood afar Off from mo. 7g
Your information was correct that I had
J received a communication advioing the
that ecclesiastic proceedings against mo
were again to DO Instituted. That com.
munlcation I received as unofficial and
personal" and as originating in, emsu.
ating from simply the writer's brotherly
kindness and charity, attributes Of charac.
ter which I had already experientially
known him 10 possess. I did not think,
nor do 1 now think, that the com.
m%unication md the suggestions that
1t containedNwere Intended to entrap
me-. or to be used thereafter to
my hurt. Although I had had quite n sad
experience along a similar line, l did not
suspect, nor do l now suspect, that there
was any intention in this Gaze to force me
along such line. You will remember that
before tho initiation Of the ecclesiastic
proceedings against me more than q year
ago, and when out of my dRrkness my
heart was crying, Lord, what wilt thou
have me- 10 do,"y rs my 'Rev. Father
In God" couuselled mo to demand OF the
church On investigation OF the reports az
tecting my ministerial and moral charac.
ter. That counsel I accepted, not only rs
vice, but ss tho counsel OF my bishop, to
whose heart ! then felt very close, and
whose counsel I supposed was given with
the feelings Of q father, as It uuquestiona-
bly,. was received by me III the npirit OF a
child. My cad experience waz, when
tho prosecution in my cage BROUGHT
out before "the very court" The
fact that such counsel had been given
me, and the impression WINS evidently In.
tended to be, and unquestionably vaa,
left upon "the court" that It was that
counsel exclusively, aud not my " con.
s%ciousnes' Of innocence, that impelled me
to demand the investigation. How the
prosecution came into possession of the
knowledge Of that fact, which I accepted
as taking place with hoart to heart and in
tender confidence, 1 do not know; I only
know that when the possession Of euch
knoIledge was eyinced by the prosecu-
ton, and the question WIGS put TO M
whether l had sought tho trial Of nv own
motion, or had been prompted by another
to seek II, | fGlt az though I had received
q stunning blow, and almost cried out,
Cured be the man tbattrusteth in man I'
But am | blnmeable because l can seq No
reconciliation between such occurrences
anu the assertions in your recent letter
that l have quoted? U5r
While, however, I received such com.
municatior as you refer to from my friend,
l desire 10 say that though that had mnch
weight in determining me to write YOU nv
remuneration Of the ministry of the Prof.
esisDt Episcopal Church, il WIS not the
only determining power. Letters to my
friends, apd conversations with my friends,
could be adduced and cited to show that
the thought and purpose of sooner or later
making such remuneration, in soms form
or other, had long been in my mind, And.
from the act I had been restrained osly by
what presented itself to my mind as Low.
atty to the Church. I am quite sure that
1t must hGvo presented itsolf 10 your mind
that after the experiences through which
! had passed during my so.cailed "trial,"
1t would be- enthusiastically impossible for
me ever again TO resume and exercise
the ministry Of tho Protestant Episco.
pal Church n the Diocese Of Georgia.
Freedom from my suspension would no.
have secured to me freedom to do that.
at the expiration OF the term OF my gus.
pension l must either have quilted at
lanta as my home, or have a~baudonet all
thought Of regularly exercising the min;s-
Try. OF the Protestant Episcopal church,
This ! Say on The assumption thst tho su.
thorities OF that church in the diocese OF
deo1s's would ne constituted as they are
now. 40 | mad resolved not to do the
lormer, had resolved TO do the latter.
these resolutions bad been communicated
TO many OF my friends, both by letter and
In conversation. And | mske this state.
lnent to you lest you may have formed the
conclusion that my remuneration Of the
ministry vac determined excluaively by
the communication Of the friend 8bove re-
tered 70, ard by The fear Of another Tin
yeatigasion." | confess frselythat I Should
nay gressiy ehTnnk from another %ecelesi-
astlc "s'isl'' The experience that I had
IN the recent one was certainly not Such as
70 lead me- to desire another Of the same
END. "here thofe is neither change Of
Voaue OF. court OF appeal, Il will
not readily court a second trial,
especially. when the jury in the
second trial must Of neceeelty bo nado
up either 81 members OF tde former irry,
whose yerdics at the fist one the defend.
ant had pronounced contrary to law aud
testimony, yet from which he had had M